Video: The Rebbe to Dinkins “CH Is a Melting Pot”

Two years before the Crown Heights riots broke out the newly elected New York City Mayor David Dinkins met the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Rebbe told the the mayor that Crown Heights a melting pot of many cultures, and it should be a melting pot of good things.

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World News Outlets Report on 20 Year Anniversary of Crown Heights Pogrom

News outlets worldwide are reporting on the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights Pogrom. The following is a collection of headlines from both news and opinion sections of the media. While most journalists recognize the nature of the riot – an anti-Semitic, blood libel based pogrom – some, such as Henry Goldschmidt writing for the Huffington Post, have taken to apologizing for the perpetrators of the crime, laying the blame on “pent-up black frustration at white privilege” and the “complexity of race relations in Crown Heights.”

Chabad Targets Young Islington Professionals

Jewish Chronicle

Rabbi Mendy Korer, who will run the Canonbury centre, with his wife Hadasa and their two daughters.

Chabad is opening a house in Islington with the aim of reaching the influx of young Jewish professionals and families moving to that part of London.

Sen. Joe Lieberman Embraces the Gift of the Sabbath

Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, looks forward to Fridays, when he can get home, switch his BlackBerry off and just be Joe – Hadassah Lieberman’s husband, father of four, grandfather of 11.

Info to Be Menachem Avel the Ostrozynski Family

The Ostrozynski family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their dear mother, Mrs. Mindy Ostrozynski OBM at her home, 440 Brooklyn Apt 4B in Crown Heights.

Shacharis 7:30, 8:15 and 9:00 (Sunday no 7:30am minyan).
Mincha 7:30pm (Friday: 2:00pm).
Maariv 8:25pm.

Condolences can be sent to ostro770@hotmail.com

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim